He said: "This season the players have allowed the supporters to dream and for a club of this size and magnitude, to be a point ahead at the top of the table with a week to go, you never know what can happen - it has been magnificent.

"I promise for the time I am here we will fight for our lives and we won't finish until Newcastle."

“We will finish the season strong and keep going to strive to be the best”

Brendan Rodgers

Rodgers received a standing ovation from his players at the club's inaugural awards night after winning an outstanding achievement award less than two years into his tenure.

He added: "Monday night was difficult. If you were in the changing room you would have felt how much it mattered to everyone.

"The key thing to remember is the journey we are on is going to have good and bad times but through it all we have to stick together as that is the Liverpool way.

"We will finish the season strong and keep going to strive to be the best."